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Bill O'Reilly
You are listening to the O'Reilly Update. Coming up next, the news with Mike Slater.
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Mike Slater
Thank you, Bill. This is Mike Slater. It is Memorial Day, Monday, May 26, 2025. You're listening to the O'Reilly Update. Here's what's happening today in America. Russia attacks Ukraine, Harvard cancels race based graduation ceremonies. Tourists ranked the best beaches in America and global unhappiness reaches a record high. That's all coming up. Then. I'll be back with your message of the day. But first, Russia launched its largest aerial assault of its three year war in Ukraine over the weekend, targeting the capital and other regions with missiles and drones for 48 hours. According to Ukraine, at least 12 people were killed in the barrage. Ukrainian President Zelensky released a statement after the assault, quote, each terrorist attack by Russia is a sufficient reason for new sanctions against Moscow. Putin is dragging out this war and continues to kill every day. Harvard University canceling their affinity graduation ceremonies. The school ditched the events to try and comply with the Trump administration's new guidelines regarding diversity, equity and inclusion. Affinity ceremonies, can you believe these? These have been a thing for a long time. Affinity ceremonies, they're optional events which where students celebrate different identities and ethnicities, including a mini black graduation ceremony, LGBTQ and Hispanic. The decision comes as the White House freezes $2 billion in federal funding after Harvard refused to comply with its DEI policy. A report from TripAdvisor revealing the country's top 25 beach destinations for 2025. Most can be found in Hawaii, California and Florida. The best stretch of sand goes to St. Pete beach in the Sunshine State. Other popular spots include Waikiki beach and Honolulu and Cape Cod, Massachusetts. If you want to brave the colder waters and the occasional great white shark. A survey from Gallup finds the world's population more stressed out than ever before. The polling outfit asked adults in 120 countries. So not just it's not just you, not just America to assess their current level of happiness. 40% say they are deeply worried every day, the highest on record, 45% of people around the world experience daily anxiety. The highest level of sadness can be found in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, the happiest places on earth, Finland, Denmark and Iceland. I'm Mike Slater from the podcast Politics by Faith. I will be back with your message of the day again about Harvard and Trump no longer allowing foreigners to be at Harvard University. Do you have any foreigners go to Harvard? What percentage of Harvard is made of foreigners? And then we'll wrap up with a Memorial Day tribute to Michael McMahon and his son Ricky coming up next.
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Bill O'Reilly
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Mike Slater
Hey, this is Mike Slater from Politics by Faith filling in for the great Bill O'Reilly. Now it's time for the O'Reilly update message of the day. Donald Trump has removed Harvard's Student and Exchange Visitor program certification. Every university that enrolls international students needs permission certification from ICE and Department of Homeland Security to issue an F or or M visa for Form I20. Which international students need to apply to get a student visa to come to America. Harvard no longer has that certification. A judge stopped the administration from doing this, but it'll go through the courts. Trump's plan is to revoke Harvard's certification so they can't have any more international students there. The head of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem said it is a privilege, not a right for universities to enroll foreign students and benefit from their higher tuition payments to help pad their multi billion dollar endowments. Let this serve as a warning to all universities and academic institutions across the country. What percentage of Harvard students do you think are foreigners? What would you think? Take a guess. Imagine the Harvard student body. What percentage of all Harvard students are from a different country? 27%. This is a quote in The New York Times. From a Latin America history professor. This will destroy the university as we know it. Harvard is situated in the United States physically, but its students and faculty hail from all over the world. That is fundamental to the work and mission of the institution. You cannot take that away and have an institution left at the end of it. Wow. The left has done to Harvard what it's tried to do to America. Sell it out as merely an idea. Not a place beyond where it just, of course, happens to be, but an idea that has no relationship or obligation to American interests or culture, American government or people. Sure, we might happen to be in America, but we have no connection to America, they say. And as Samuel Goldman said, if this is how you want to operate, you shouldn't be surprised if you. If the vast privileges you enjoy become controversial among Americans. But the left did this to America, too, just like they did at Harvard. To them, America is merely an idea. But as that World War II veteran said at the most recent Republican Convention, America is not an idea. America is our home. Harvard has changed a lot over the years. You know Harvard's first mission statement, the first mission statement of Harvard was for the glory of Christ. All the Ivy League schools started out as seminaries. Now those days are long gone. But they also went 200 years without any international students. So this is a newer phenomenon. And now they're saying that we can't exist without foreigners. Well, they say the same about America. We can't function without foreigners. To the point where Dick Durbin was on the Senate floor saying, we need illegal aliens to serve in our military. We just can't get enough people to join the military. We, we have to open it up to illegal aliens. How long would it be until Americans wouldn't want to join that military? It would just be another job that we're told Americans don't want to do. And then they say, well, oh, think of all the money they bring in. Same with America, right? Oh, the, the foreigners, they make things, they build things. Who's going to clean the things? Who will be our slaves? And who will buy things? More than 1.1 million international students. This New York Times contributed $43 billion to the U.S. economy selling out America and American students. It's good for the economy. Just like the left said, illegal aliens are good for our gdp. Well, we're more than a gdp. We're more than an economy. And Harvard and America used to be, and should be again, a place for Americans. A Memorial Day. Something you might know next.
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Bill O'Reilly
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Mike Slater
I'm Mike Slater filling in for Bill O'Reilly. Now it's time for something you might not know. The commander in chief gave the commencement address at West Point the other day. It was a wonderful address and one of the main focuses was on one of the most important parts of our military and that is the legacy of families who serve generational service. And this isn't just a nice kind of feel good thing. 80% of military recruits have a family member who served. 25% of military recruits have a parent who served. This is a deeply rooted tradition of service in many of our families in this country. We are so grateful for them, including the family of Ricky McMahon. Ricky's great grandfather served in World War I. His grandfather served in World War II. His uncle, father and mother all graduated from West Point in 2004. When Ricky was very little, his dad, Lt. Col. Michael McMahon, was killed in Afghanistan. He was in a plane crash high in the Afghanistan snow covered mountains. His sister back at this time period, whenever he had the opportunity, they would talk on the phone and she would say, mike, are you having the time of your life? And he'd say yes, nor I'm having the time of my life, she said of him. He was a man who loved his troops and would take care of them. He's been laid to rest at the West Point cemetery. And now 21 years later after losing his father, Ricky is now one of those troops. He's one of those service members serving in the same tradition as his mother and father, grandfather and great grandfather. Ricky placed his dad's 1985 class ring in a crucible with other rings of past West Point grads. And that's all melted down to forge new rings for the class of 2025, Trump said at the commencement address to Ricky and his mom, Jeanette. You embody what this place is all about. And I know Michael, he's up there, he's smiling broadly. So proud. He's so proud of you. Today, Trump said, I love this story so much and everybody's ring. They're going to remember you, they're going to remember your family. And most importantly, you're going to remember a great tradition. It's a great tradition of West Point and of winners. For two and a half centuries, this nation has endured because of heroes like Michael and the legacy they've created in their families, raising up young men like Ricky. I hope you have a meaningful Memorial Day thinking of the heroes and the legacy of families who have served this nation and all of us for so long. More coming up.
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Mike Slater
I hope you have a really meaningful memorial today. I'm Mike Slater from Politics by Faith. Fill in for Bill O'Reilly. We'll be back tomorrow.